Here is video of Day 2 of Donald Trump’s interview with Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly will air the rest of the interview tomorrow, using it for a third straight day.
Trump said he would put an end to China ripping off the United States and taking our jobs. He said he would tell the Chinese as President that they would face a 25% tariff on their goods if they did not stop manipulating their currency. He said he would stop OPEC’s manipulation of oil prices as well. When asked how he would do it, Trump said it is “all about the messenger.” It’s a matter of how the message is delivered to them.
On Iraq, Trump said he would not leave if he were President now. Instead he said he would keep a U.S. presence there to prevent Iran from taking over the oil fields – which he said they will do “two minutes” after we pull our troops out of Iraq. He also said he would protect those oil fields and take some of the Iraqi Oil to pay the United States, Great Britain and other countries back that helped the Iraqis obtain their freedom from Saddam Hussein. That is what O’Reilly had said would make our heads snap back in his teaser of tonight’s interview segment.
On Libya, Donald Trump said the most amazing thing is that we have let France take the lead and not insisted on the Arab League paying for much of the operation. Trump said “it could happen” that the Rebels we are supporting turn out to be worse than Gadhafi.
On Iran, Trump said he would not allow Iran to obtain Nuclear Weapons. When asked how he would stop them, Trump said he would “do what I have to do” to stop them.
Here is video of Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott saying on the House Floor that he is “tired of reading the Constitution and all the silly things we’ve done for the last 13 weeks.”
McDermott was criticizing the way the GOP is running the House of Representatives – particularly that they began by reading the U.S. Constitution.
Actually, Democrats could benefit from reading it a lot more. This ought to fit well in ads for whoever runs against McDermott in 2012.
Here is video of Donald Trump this morning in a combative exchange about the issue of President Obama’s Birth Certificate with MSNBC’s Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd. Both Gurthrie and Todd laughed at Trump throughout the exchange, and talked to him with a completely dismissive attitude. Trump was unfazed, continuing to say it is a legitimate issue and that Obama can make it go away by producing his Birth Certificate – not a “Certificate of Live Birth.”
They went on to talk about Libya, where Trump was asked if he would arm the Rebels there. He said he would want to know first “who they are.” Trump indicated he has heard up to 20% of the Rebels are aligned with Al-Qaeda and Iran – with many of them having actually fought against U.S. Troops in Iraq. Trump said he would have found out who they are BEFORE starting a bombing campaign in the country.
As for a timeline on when Trump will decide if he is running for President, he said he would announce a decision “before June.”
Trump got a good shot in at Todd and Guthrie at the end of the interview. He said he was sure they would confirm that his “Celebrity Apprentice” show is “by far” the most popular show on their NBC network. Trump said he was they would confirm that even though they won’t confirm “the birther” issue.
Here is a report from Fox News’ Rick Leventhal this afternoon on the situation in Libya. He reports that Rebels were being shelled and pushed back all along the Eastern part of Libya. Gadhafi forces are on the offensive, and Rebels claim they need heavier weapons.
Leventhal also reported that CIA teams are now on the ground in Libya trying to assess what the Rebels need, and whether they can be trusted with weapons we could supply to them. Obama reportedly signed a “secret order” (?) allowing covert action in Libya. If it is a “secret order,” how did the word get out so fast?
A new Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll out today shows a dead heat nationally between President Obama and Gov. Mike Huckabee. Both garnered 46% of the vote in the survey. Gov. Mitt Romney only trailed Obama by one point, 44%-43%. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – who has repeatedly said he will not run – is within six-points of Obama at 46%-40%. In our average of polls since February 15, Huckabee now trails Obama by only 1.7%, with Romney 4.3% behind.
It’s hard to not notice how poorly Gov. Sarah Palin is showing in poll after poll, both national surveys and state polls. She is now 15.4 points back of Obama in the average of national polls.
Here is a video report from NBC’s Richard Engel in Libya. His report reveals the reality about the Libyan Rebels the U.S. is now supporting. Engel reports they are now discouraged and in full retreat in the face of Gadhafi’s forces.
Engel says Gadhafi’s forces are now using jeeps that look like the vehicles used by the Rebels – making it much harder for NATO aircraft to use airstrikes against them. He also reports the Rebels have weapons that they often don’t know how to use. In one case, Engels says he saw some Rebels attempting to fire a rocket – but they fired it in the wrong direction, backward, into a civilian area.
Virtually all the Rebel gains have now been erased, Engel reported. Gadhafi forces are now within 1 1/2 hours of Benghazi.
Here is video of British Foreign Secretary William Hague announcing that Libya’s Foreign Minister – Moussa Koussa – has abandoned Moammar Gadhafi and defected to Great Britain. He also said the defection is a sign that the regime of Dictator Moammar Gadhafi is “crumbling,” and that it is time for Gadhafi “to go.”
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